Abstract
An increase in urbanization has been witnessed from 1980 to 2019 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The impact of this increase in urban areas on rainfall pattern and intensity has been assessed in this study. To evaluate these changes, four heavy rainfall events, such as 06th March 2017, 23rd May 2018, 20 – 22 July 2018, and 04 – 08 August 2018, have been simulated with 1980, 2000, and 2019 land use land cover (LULC) obtained from United States Geological Survey imageries. With these two LULC sensitivities, urban canopy model (UCM) experiments have also been carried out. These experiments suggest that incorporating corrected LULC is necessary for simulating heavy rainfall events using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Urbanization increases the rainfall intensity, and the spatial shift was more pronounced along the peripheral region of the city. The vertically integrated moisture flux analysis suggests that more moisture present over the area received intense rainfall. An increase in urbanization increases the temperature at the lower level of the atmosphere, which increases [planetary boundary layer height, local convection, and rainfall over the region. Contiguous Rain Area method analysis suggests that the 2019 LULC with single layer UCM predicts a better spatial representation of rainfall. This combination works well for all the four cases simulated.
Highlights
• Realistic representation of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes improves the prediction of convection over urban regimes.
• The 2019 urban amalgamation in LULC spread in the weather model discloses that the rainfall intensity has increased compared to the 1980 LULC simulation
• The maximum rainfall limited to a shorter spell (~1 hour), due to the urban heating effect.
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1 Introduction
Urbanization is the land use land cover (LULC) changes of the region, which creates contrasts between urban and rural areas land surface characteristics. In recent years, there is an increase in number of extreme rainfall events over different cities of India (Niyogi et al., 2018). Urbanization changes the rainfall distribution; which changes water cycle of the region. Hence, research on urban impacts on rainfall has become more critical in recent periods.
Different studies on urbanization suggest that unchecked urbanization can promote floods in a region (Ghosh et al., 2012; Gupta & Nair, 2010; Kishtawal et al., 2010). Urban land cover modulates local weather and climate processes (Yan et al., 2016). LULC changes could modify the emissivity, roughness, humidity, of surface and CAPE values of the atmosphere (Osuri et al., 2017; Pielke et al., 2011). An increase in urbanization can affect the timing and location of rainfall (Lin et al., 2008; Niyogi et al., 2020). Urban land surface alters heat, momentum, and moisture between the atmosphere and surface (Oke, 1988; Shepherd, 2013). Urban heat island (UHI) within the urban region influence dynamical and convective processes in the atmosphere. Natural landscape over urban areas changes rainfall, mesoscale convection, and temperature (Niyogi et al., 2006, 2011). Over city region, higher surface temperature and deeper atmospheric boundary layer are generally observed (Rozoff et al., 2003). The tendency for thunderstorm formation is moreover large cities compared to rural areas (Horton, 1921; Shepherd, 2005).
During the summer months, the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment suggests that the precipitation over an urban area generally increases (Changnon et al., 1977 and Huff, 1986). From Huff & Vogel, 1978, & Changnon et al., 1991, it is found that the increased rainfall is typically observed within 50 – 75 km downwind of the urbanized city. Due to urbanization, afternoon thunderstorms increased by 67% in Taipei (Chen et al., 2007). Shephard et al. 2002 and Balling & Cerveny, 1987 have noted that the urban heat-island significantly impacts precipitation.
The main objective of this recent work is to find out the role of urbanization on spatial and temporal distribution of heavy rainfall with the help of a mesoscale model over Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha state. An increase in an urban area and its impact on the temperature in Bhubaneswar city has been studied by Pathy and Panda (2012), Swain et al. (2017), Gogoi et al. (2019), and Barik et al. (2019). In this study, we want to address how the evolution of urban areas changes the intensity and characteristics of rainfall over a region? Four heavy rainfall events have been considered, and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used to simulate those cases. These simulations are conducted by incorporating images of land-surface characteristics of the Bhubaneswar urban area for heavy rainfall events.
2 Study area
Bhubaneswar is an ancient city with a population of 8.38 lakhs located along the eastern portion of India. It is centered at 85.84º E and 20.27º N, 45 m from the mean sea level. This is situated in the Khordha district of Odisha state. It is surrounded by Nayagarh district on the west, Cuttack district on its north, Puri district on its south, and Jagatsinghpur district on the east. Bhubaneswar is one of the urbanized cities in the country, which experiences frequent natural hazards such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and tropical cyclones (Gupta, 2020; Mohanty et al., 2013; Panda et al., 2014).
3 Model configuration
In the research work, the Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF-ARW) has been used (Skamarock et al., 2008) to simulate the heavy rainfall events. The model consists of a three-domain, in which third domain consists of 500 m grid spacing (d03), a second domain consists of 1.5 km grid spacing (d02), and an outer domain consists of 4.5 km grid spacing (d01). The domain used for rainfall events model simulation has been shown in Fig. 1a and the satellite view of d03, consisting of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack urbanized city presented in Fig. 1b.
4 Data used and methodology
To analyze the effect of urbanization on rainfall, four heavy rainfall events have been considered, such as 06th March 2017 (72 mm/hr), 23rd May 2018 (55 mm/hr), 20 – 22 July 2018 (220 mm/day), and 04 – 08 August 2018 (390 mm/day). Rainfall analysis for all four cases have been shown in this manuscript. As the rainfall prediction is better for 20,072,018 case, all other large-scale meteorological parameters have been analyzed for this one case only. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS) analysis of 0.5° × 0.5° spatial resolution datasets have been used to run the model. For validation, half-hourly rainfall data of 10 km × 10 km grid resolution from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) have been used. GPM from NASA is the best reliable datasets during the study period and over the study region. However, in recent years from last few months, the surface network density has been increased over the Odisha State Disaster Management, unfortunately which is not available during the study period.
Urban Land Use Land Cover (LULC) maps have been incorporated only in the inner domain of the model setup. United States Geological Survey (USGS) imageries have been taken and with the help of ArcGIS software, the land use maps for 1980, 2000, and 2019 year for Bhubaneswar-Cuttack city has been created. A total of seven experiments for each rainfall case have been carried out with different LULC and Urban Canopy Model (UCM) named Control, 1980_NoUCM, 1980_SUCM, 2000_NoUCM, 2000_SUCM, 2019_NoUCM, and 2019 SUCM. Here Control is referred to as simulation with default land use. 1980_NoUCM suggests the model simulation with 1980 LULC without incorporating the UCM layer, whereas 1980_SUCM suggests the model simulation with 1980 LULC and single layer UCM. Similarly, 2000_NoUCM and 2000_SUCM are the same as 1980_NoUCM and 1980_SUCM but with 2000 LULC incorporation, and 2019_NoUCM and 2019_SUCM are the same as 1980_NoUCM and 1980_SUCM but with 2019 LULC incorporation. The physical parameterizations include the Kain-Fritsch scheme for cumulus convection (which has been considered in the parent domain only), the WDM 6-class scheme for microphysics, the RRTMG shortwave and longwave schemes, the Bougeault and Lacarrere (BouLac) planetary boundary, the Monin–Obukhov Similarity scheme for the surface layer, and the unified Noah Land-Surface Model scheme (Table 1). All the used parameterization schemes have been selected on the basis of our own sensitivity experiments for heavy rainfall prediction over Bhubaneswar city (Nadimpalli et al., 2022; (Karrevula, N. R., Nadimpalli, R., Sinha P., Mohanty S., Swain M., Boyaj A., Mohanty U. C. Performance evaluation of WRF model in simulating heavy rainfall events over Bhubaneswar urban region of East coast of India, under review), and Swain et al. MAPEX-2019). Also the physical parameterization schemes have been chosen from Skamarock et al. (2005). All the four cases have been analyzed and the rainfall results also shown in the manuscript. For only one case (20–22 July 2018), all meteorological parameters have been studied, and presented here.
4.1 Contiguous Rain Area (CRA)
The Contiguous Rain Area (CRA) is an object-oriented method to compare the characteristics of forecasted rainfall with observation (Ebert & McBride, 2000). A significant advantage of this method is that the location error of the forecasted rainfall can be quantified.
In the CRA method, the total error is divided into location, volume, and pattern error (Ebert & Gallus, 2009). In CRA, first it will create an area with a user-specified rainfall intensity threshold in both observation and the model forecast. After identifying the observation and forecast pair for a threshold, a pattern-matching technique estimates the location error. Then, till the best-fit between forecast and the observations, the forecast rainfall is horizontally shifted over the observational rainfall. The best fit between the observation and model forecast can be analysed either:
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By overlapping the centers of gravity
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By maximizing the correlation coefficient (Grams et al., 2006)
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By minimizing the total squared error (Ebert & McBride, 2000)
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Maximizing the overlap (Ebert et al., 2004) of the two entities
The original forecast's mean squared error (MSE) can be decomposed into three categories, such as displacement, pattern, and volume error.
where the component errors are,
where,
O and F = observation and mean forecast values after translation of forecast concerning the observation.
So and Sf = standard deviation of the observed and forecast rainfall before translation the forecast.
‘r’ = spatial correlation between the observation and forecast, and ropt is the optimum value of ‘r’ during pattern matching.
5 Results and discussions
The spatial distribution of rainfall from GPM datasets and all model simulations for four rainfall event has been plotted in Figs. 2 and 3a–h.
For 22052018 case, the control experiment does not predict the rainfall over Bhubaneswar at all. 1980 LULC simulations predicts the rainfall, but not over the Bhubaneswar and it is more spatially scattered. Similarly, for 2000 LULC simulations, the rainfall is also not that much present over Bhubaneswar and it is spatially more scattered. In 2019 LULC simulations, the rainfall is well predicted over Bhubaneswar and its surrounding regions, but the patch of maximum rainfall is spatially shifted towards north (Fig. 2).
Similarly, for 06032017 case, the rainfall has not been well predicted in control, and 1980 LULC simulations. 2000 LULC simulations give rainfall patches over Bhubaneswar, but spatially it is shifted compare to the observation. Simulations with 2019 LULC give rainfall along the eastern side of the city as observation, and 2019_SUCM simulation predicts rainfall intensity better than 2019_NoUCM simulation (Fig. 4).
For 05082018 case, the control, 1980 LULC simulations, and 2000 LULC simulations are predicting rainfall but at the eastern side of the city, whereas the observation gives rainfall along western side of the city. 2019_NoUCM simulation gives rainfall over Bhubaneswar, but there is a spatial shifting. 2019_SUCM simulation gives two patches of rainfall, one is over Bhubaneswar and another one is along western side of the city near to observed rainfall (Fig. 5).
For 20072018 case, the control, 1980 LULC simulations, and 2000 LULC simulations does not predict rainfall as observation. 2019 LULC simulations predict intensified rainfall as observation, and 2019_SUCM gives rainfall over eastern side of the city as observation (Fig. 3). Previous studies also observed that the areas with more urban areas are showing a significant increase in extreme precipitation indices in the USA (Mishra and Lettenmaier 2011). It is also observed that the rainfall occurring due to 2019 LULC is present at the periphery of the city, which corroborates with prior observational studies (Zhong & Yang, 2015).
5.1 Heidke skill score
Heidke skill score (HSS) is a measure of skill in forecast. It is defined as = (score value – score for the standard forecast) / (perfect score – score for the standard forecast) (Pattanaik et al. 2012).
The range of the HSS is -∞ to 1. Negative values indicate that the chance forecast is better, 0 means no skill, and a perfect forecast obtains a HSS of 1. It measures the fractional improvement of the forecast over the observation.
Heidke skill score has been calculated for all the four cases and presented in Fig. 6. It is observed that 2019 LULC simulations are giving good skill score for less intensified rainfall i.e. for 10 – 30 mm for 22052108 case. Similarly, for 06032017 case, 2019 LUC simulations are giving good skill for 0.1 – 20 mm amount of rainfall. As the spatial distribution is not good, the skill score is not coming good for high intensified rainfall. But for 05,082,018 case, it is different like 2000 LULC simulations are giving better result compare to all other simulations. For 20072018 case, 2019 LULC simulations are giving good skill score compared to all other rainfall simulations and it is good for highly intensified rainfall i.e. 40 – 90 mm. To find out the reason for this type of occurrence, different meteorological parameters have been analyzed and presented in the following section.
5.2 Vertically integrated moisture flux
Vertically integrated moisture flux (VIMF) is generally used in meteorology to find out the presence/source of moisture during rainfall. It has been calculated using following equation from 1000 to 300 hPa vertical pressure level (Banacos & Schultz, 2005),
In the above equation,
‘q’ = atmospheric specific humidity,
‘VIMF’ = vertically integrated moisture flux from 1000 to 300 hPa pressure level,
‘u’ and ‘v’ = zonal and meridional wind velocity, respectively,
‘g’ = acceleration due to gravity (= 9.8 m/s2),
and 'p' = atmospheric pressure at different levels (Van Zomeren & Van Delden, 2007).
VIMF for the time of heavy rainfall from all five model simulations has been calculated and shown in Fig. 7a-g. VIMF is generally more for 2019 LULC in both the UCM simulations than 1980 LULC and 2000 LULC, suggesting that the 2019 LUCL predicts a better representation of moisture corresponding to rainfall. Previously, it was also observed that humidity over the urban area is less in comparision to rural areas in many regions of the world, such as Nagano, Japan (Moriwaki et al., 2013), Chicago, USA (Ackerman, 1987), Moscow, Russia (Lokoshchenko, 2017).
5.3 Urban energy budget
The surface energy balance is important for thermos-dynamical variations above the surface. The urban surface radiation budget and surface energy budget are calculated by using the following equation,
In above equation,
Q* = net solar radiation at the surface; K↓ = incoming shortwave radiation.
K↑ = outgoing reflected shortwave radiation and which is defined as α0. K↓. Where α0 is the surface albedo.
L↓ = incoming long-wave radiation on the ground surface.
L↑ = outgoing long-wave radiation emitted from the surface, and it is defined as “ε0σTs4 + (1—ε0) L↓”. Where, ε0 = emissivity, Steffan-Boltzmann constant is 5.6704 × 105 cm2.s1. K.4
Ts,. = absolute surface temperature.
“QH” = turbulent sensible heat flux,
“QE” = turbulent latent heat flux, and.
“QG” = ground heat flux.
Urban storage from five model simulations has been calculated and presented at constant latitude (20.25° N) with varying longitude and time in Fig. 8a-g. Two vertical black dotted lines represent the geographical spreading of Bhubaneswar city, and the black oval shape represents the temporal occurrence of heavy rainfall over the city. The urban storage is more from the 2019_SUCM simulation and maximum during heavy rainfall. Net radiation over a region represents that the surface absorbs more short-wave radiation. It depends on the geometric and material properties typical of urban areas (Pearlmutter et al., 2005). The increased sensible heat flux results in the region having higher surface air temperature and convection (Zhang et al. 2019).
5.4 Vertical velocity
Vertical velocity during heavy rainfall time has been calculated from all model simulations at constant latitude (Bhubaneswar city latitude position: 20.25° N) with varying longitude and vertical pressure level. Then, the vertical velocity from four sensitivity experiments and the control one has been plotted in Fig. 9a-f.
Vertical velocity between 900 to 500 hPa level is more (which is about 4 m s-1) and positive in the 2019_SUCM experiment with respect to the control experiment compared to all other simulations. Positive vertical velocity is associated with rising/ascent mass motion from the surface, while negative vertical velocity is associated with subsidence mass movement towards the surface. The rising mass motion (i.e., moisture) is related to extreme rainfall over a region. It is observed that the urban heat island effect strengthens the vertical velocity along the periphery, which increases the precipitation (Zhang et al., 2018). We can also observe that the rising motion is more around 86° E, a peripheral region of Bhubaneswar. The model with 1980 LULC simulations provides less vertical velocity, suggesting that surface evaporation is less due to less surface air temperature.
5.5 Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) height
As the local convection affects the PBL height of the region, the PBL height has been plotted for the heavy rainfall time over Bhubaneswar city and presented in Fig. 10a-g. It is observed that the PBL height is more in 2019 LULC simulations over Bhubaneswar city compared to 1980 LULC and 2000 LULC simulations. It suggests that the increase in an urban area increases the surface air temperature; which lowers relative humidity and increases PBL height over the city. Over urban areas, an increase in PBL height results in the transfer of more water mixing vapor into the atmosphere (Zhang et al., 2019). Consequently, heavy rainfall events generally occur in urban areas with more localized and pronounced intensity and frequency.
5.6 Surface-precipitation feedback
The rainfall over a region is mainly contributed by local evapotranspiration and large-scale atmospheric moisture transport to that region. The antecedent land state regulates the precipitation efficiency (Schär et al., 1999). Different researchers are also using this method to analyze various processes contributions to precipitation (Osuri et al., 2020). It is suggested that the incorporation of updated LULC in the model provides additional information on understanding the importance of LULC in modulating precipitation, which can be done by surface-precipitation feedback analysis.
The change in precipitation "ΔP" can be expressed as,
where,
“χ” = precipitation efficiency and calculates as χ = \(\frac{P}{(ET+IN)}\).
“ET” = evaporation and “IN” = moisture influx.
P’ stands for 1980_NoUCM, 1980_SUCM, 2000_NoUCM, 2000_SUCM, 2019_NoUCM, & 2019_SUCM experiments and P stands for control experiment. “Term I” represents the efficiency effect which implies the precipitation change due to precipitation efficiency. “Term II” represents the surface effect which is mainly the evaporation. “Term III” represents remote effect, which represents the impact of remotely present moisture on rainfall, and “Term IV” represents residual term.
λ = (2.501—0.00237*Tair)106 (J kg-1), and Tair is the air temperature at the ground surface.
The surface-precipitation feedback for the time of heavy rainfall has been averaged over Bhubaneswar (20.2 N – 20.36 N; 85.76E – 85.9E) and plotted for different model simulations in Fig. 11. It is observed that the precipitation difference is more in 2019_SUCM, which suggests that the rainfall from the 2019_SUCM simulation is more compared to other experiments. The surface effect is more prominent in the 2019_SUCM model experiment, followed by the 2000_SUCM, 1980_SUCM and 2019_NoUCM experiments. It is due to an increase in the urban area, which increases surface air temperature and hence evaporation. In 1980_SUCM, the efficiency effect contributes to the precipitation rate. The efficiency and surface effects have a similar role in 2019_SUCM for precipitation. The residual term is in less magnitude for all the experiments.
5.7 Errors of rainfall using CRA method
CRA method provides spatial and quantitative errors present in the model-derived rainfall. Previously, this method has been used for rainfall analysis over the Indian Monsoon region (Kumar Das et al., 2014; Sharma et al., 2019 and Osuri et al., 2020). The spatial and quantitative errors of forecasted rainfall concerning GPM data have been analyzed using the CRA method and shown in Fig. 12. CRA has been calculated on the day of heavy rainfall, and it is observed that the 2019_SUCM is predicting a better spatial representation of rainfall than others. There are two features of having more than 64.5 mm (heavy rainfall as per IMD classification). The first one covers more area and has been well predicted from all the model simulations, whereas the second feature is only present in the 2019_SUCM simulation. Error decompositions derived from CRA have been shown in Table 2. For all model simulations, volume error is less than other decomposition errors in the 2019_SUCM experiment, which is about 0.11%. Displacement error is more minor in the 2019_NoUCM simulation followed by 1980_NoUCM, 1980_SUCM, and 2019_SUCM. The model has more pattern errors in predicting rainfall.
6 Summary and conclusion
The study investigated the impact of urbanization on spatial–temporal distribution and intensity of rainfall over Bhubaneswar city. Four heavy rainfall events such as 06th March 2017 (72 mm/hr), 23rd May 2018 (55 mm/hr), 20 – 22 July 2018 (220 mm/day), and 04 – 08 August 2018 (390 mm/day) have been considered for LULC experiments with the help of the WRF mesoscale model. Three different LULC changes, such as 1980, 2000 and 2019, and UCM layer incorporation, have been taken to examine the impact of expansion of urbanized area on rainfall.
The incorporation of LULC in the WRF model reveals that the rainfall intensity has increased in the 2019 LULC simulation in comparison to the 2000 LULC, and 1980 LULC simulations. Model can capture the rainfall in the control experiment but does not accurately predict the spatial distribution of rainfall. Shifting of rainfall occurred in the 2019 LULC with single layer UCM simulation, and more rainfall has happened over the boundary of the urban–rural area. This maximum intensified rainfall only happened for a brief period, i.e., almost one hour, due to the urban heating effect (Dou et al., 2015; Liu & Niyogi, 2019).
Vertically integrated moisture flux is more in the 2019 LULC rainfall simulation, which is over the peripheral region of Bhubaneswar city. Increase in the urban area in 2019 LULC with single layer UCM increases the urban storage flux at the surface. The further positive vertical velocity that suppresses the rising water mass in the atmosphere is present along the city's northern periphery and more in the 2019_SUCM simulation than in the other simulations. PBL height also confirms the impact of urbanization on the local atmosphere and hence on rainfall intensity. Surface-precipitation feedback analysis suggests that the surface effect is more prominent in the 2019_SUCM experiment compared to others. Then, the statistical analysis of model-derived rainfall was carried out, and for this, the object-oriented CRA method was used. From CRA analysis, it is found that the 2019_SUCM simulation accurately captures the spatial and volumetric distribution of heavy rainfall. These outputs are likely to be helpful to urban climate communities for city planning, flooding, and hydro-climatology-related issues.
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The work benefitted in parts from a research project through the DST SPLICE Network Program on Urban Climate and the Center for the Development of Computing Applications (CDAC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, GoI (CORP: DG:3170). M.S. thanks Indo-US Science and Technology Forum for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM)" (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) program for her 6-month visit to D.N.'s lab. RN and AKD acknowledges the DGM, India Meteorological Department for his support. The authors are thankful to Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM), NASA for providing rainfall datasets, and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for avail WRF model for carrying this research work.
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Swain, M., Nadimpalli, R., Das, A.K. et al. Urban modification of heavy rainfall: a model case study for Bhubaneswar urban region. Comput.Urban Sci. 3, 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00080-3
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